s Bangkok office has teamed up with software developers OpenDream to create Sai Fah: The Flood Fighter . Players can follow the cartoon hero Sai Fah as he battles a flood on his way to meet his mother, with each level of the game offering a lesson in flood safety. Gaming is hugely popular among Thai youth. A recent study found that 72% of youngsters own a mobile phone and 49% use their device for gaming....
s government will deploy 10,000 police in the capital for Sunday's election, which protesters have promised to disrupt as part of their attempt to topple the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. The government decided on Tuesday to press ahead with the 2 February election , which the main opposition party plans to boycott and despite warnings that it could lead to more violence without resolving the...
s election commission has said a contentious election planned for next week should be postponed for at least a month, warning of more bloodshed after violent clashes over the weekend. The commission is due to meet the embattled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, to discuss the election date after a constitutional court ruling opened the way for a delay in the face of months of anti-government protests...
s controversial general election for at least one month threaten to transform the current confrontation between government and opposition into a permanent state of crisis with potentially damaging region-wide ramifications. Monday's recommendation by Thailand's election commission to delay the poll , due on 2 February, follows intensified violence at the weekend. One person was killed and 12 were injured...
t find any sign of a struggle," said police lieutenant Somyot Boonyakaew, who is heading the investigation. "We found a window open. The window was very small so it was not possible that he would have slipped. He would have had to climb through the window to fall out because he was a big man. From my initial investigation, we believe he jumped." Boonyakaew said police found a three-page note from Slym's...
s prime minister ... but we want the premier to listen to us ... to our side of the story," a protest leader, Puttipong Punnakun, said. There were no reports of any violence nor any sign of security forces trying to disperse the protests. The government declared a state of emergency last week that in theory gives it sweeping powers but which it has so far shown no sign of implementing. Another protest...
Protesters prevent hundreds of thousands from voting in advance of next week's controversial general election ...
s general election Anti-government demonstrators have descended on dozens of polling stations in Thailand to stop advance voting for next week's general elections, chaining gates shut, threatening voters and preventing hundreds of thousands of people from casting ballots. A protest faction leader was fatally shot in a confrontation near a polling centre that also left 11 people wounded, and isolated...
s Tata Motors, has died after falling from a high floor of a hotel in Bangkok, the company said. Slym, 51, had attended a board meeting of Tata's Thailand unit in the Thai capital, a company spokeswoman said, giving no further details. A postmortem report is due on Monday. A native of Britain, Slym was hired in 2012 to revive flagging sales and market share in the domestic business of India's biggest...
s a myth that this is all about an elite rejecting the popular vote As Thailand's protests intensify and a state of emergency is imposed in and around Bangkok , some have begun referring to the demonstrations as " antidemocratic ", zeroing in on the opposition's boycott of a forthcoming election and the protest leaders' calls for an unelected "people's council" to replace existing democratic structures....
Constitutional court says prime minister and head of election commission have power to delay February polls amid unrest Thailand's constitutional court has ruled that elections due early next month can be delayed because of the unrest that has shaken the country since protests began late last year. The prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, had called the elections for 2 February to try to defuse anti-government...
s current street protests . On Wednesday, hardline protesters tore down the signage in front of the country's national police headquarters near Bangkok's Siam Square, and ordinary middle-class demonstrators embellished the scene with graffiti. Vendors nearby sell T-shirts with anti-police slogans. Meanwhile, pro-government groups sport T-shirts declaring "We love the police". The Peoples' Democratic...
s constitutional court has deferred a ruling on whether a general election scheduled for 2 February can be postponed as protesters keep up pressure on the government to step down. The prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, declared a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas from Wednesday, hoping to prevent an escalation in the protests now in their third month. The election commission...
s north-east - a stronghold of the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, as a state of emergency began in and around Bangkok, where protesters are trying to force her to resign. The government issued the 60-day emergency decree late on Tuesday, handing security agencies wide-ranging powers to detain suspects, impose a curfew and limit gatherings. Officials said the decree was aimed at preventing an...
homes, besieging government ministries, and forcing the beleaguered prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, to rule from offices north of the capital in their attempt to oust her from power. "The cabinet decided to invoke the emergency decree to take care of the situation and to enforce the law," said deputy prime minister Surapong Tovichaikul on Tuesday. The emergency decree, which will go into effect...
the developing middle class' – a group earning between $4 and $13 a day When a million people swarmed on to the streets of Brazil last June there was consensus that the protest was a phenomenon of the "new middle class" – squeezed by corruption and failing infrastructure. As the Thai protests continue, these too are labelled middle class: office workers staging flashmobs in their neat, pressed shirts....
s middle class and royalist establishment against poorer, mainly rural supporters of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother, ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled by the military in 2006 . "We're prepared to use the emergency decree … Everyone involved, including the police, the military and the government, is considering this option very seriously, but has not yet come to an agreement,"...
She's done it by a whisker, but she's done it,' says manager The violinist Vanessa-Mae has swapped her bow for a set of ski poles and is set compete in the Winter Olympics for Thailand next month. Mae, who has sold in excess of 10 million albums, has been training since 2010 and has qualified to ski at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics after her performance in Slovenia over the weekend, skiing's world...
Blood and debris line the streets near Bangkok's Victory Monument after two explosions that left 28 injured ...
s increasingly volatile political crisis drags on. Police said the blasts on Sunday near Victory Monument, in the north of the capital, were caused by fragmentation grenades – the same kind that killed one man and wounded dozens in a similar explosion targeting protest marchers on Friday. The demonstrators, who control several small patches of Bangkok, were vying to overthrow the prime minister, Yingluck...